Lionsgate has launched the first UK trailer for Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje hard-hitting directorial debut, ‘Farming’.
Written and directed By Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, the film stars Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, John Dagleish, Jaime Winstone, Ann Mitchell, Genevieve Nnaji, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Lee Ross and Zephan Amissah.
The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win the ‘Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film’ at the 2019 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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The film is released in UK cinemas October 11th
Farming Synopsis
Based on his own life story, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s FARMING charts the extraordinary journey of a young fostered Nigerian boy who, struggling to find an identity, falls in with a skinhead gang in 1980’s England.
At six weeks old, Enitan (Zephan Amissah) is left in the care of a white working-class family in the dock-town of Tilbury, in Essex. His new surrogate mother, Ingrid (Kate Beckinsale), makes for a complex, but dubious foster parent. Unsure of his place in the world, and lacking a mother’s love, desperate to belong the teenage Enitan (Damson Idris) spirals into self-destruction, falling in with a local skinhead gang led by Levi (John Dagleish).
When all seems lost, a sympathetic teacher, Miss Dapo (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), offers him one last shot at redemption.
